Photo: Dr. Akin
Baruwa -Left | Real Men Don't Rape - Right
Observers that filled a Lagos
Magistrate’s Court to capacity were let down on Wednesday as Dr. Akin
Baruwa, who reportedly raped an 18-year-old University of Lagos
admission seeker, failed to show up in court.
It was learnt that Baruwa, a lecturer at
the university’s Distance Learning Institute, who had been in remand at
the Kirikiri Prison since August 7, reportedly declined to follow the.....
prison officers while they were coming to the court with other inmates.
The defendant had been in trouble since
August 3, when he was arrested by the police for allegedly raping his
friend’s daughter inside an office at the institution’s Department of
Accounting.
The 42-year-old lecturer had owned up to having a sexual intercourse with the girl although he claimed it was “consensual.”
He was subsequently arraigned on one
count of rape and granted bail in the sum of N250,000 with two sureties
in like sum, while his case file was sent to the Directorate of Public
Prosecutions for legal advice.
But the bail conditions had yet to be perfected as of Wednesday when he refused to show up in court.
A lawyer from the Office of the Public
Defender, Mrs. Ibidun Ibikunle, while refuting the claim by the defence
counsel that he (Baruwa) was absent in court on health grounds, told the
court that he refused to answer prison officers when he was called.
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